‘Guilty as charged’ is the verdict. I owe an apology to the audience for selling vapourware. I got stuck with Data, RecordSet, ODBC connector & co, so the servlet engine got pushed on the back burner for the ump-th time. But I’m getting ready to give it a shot and push it out the door […]
A fresh Bjarne Stroustrup’s interview .
Neal Gafter laments about generics in Java. It is interesting to read various opinions on Java “generics” ranging from “they spoiled the language”, to “let’s (re)do it right”. Sigh. Someone please send Java “visionaries” back to future .
ODBC DataConnector is in the Subversion repository. The code is tested and runs correctly on Windows XP Pro with Oracle ODBC driver ver 10.02.00.01. It is an early snapshot with some wrinkles left to iron out so changes are likely to be seen in the near future. Comments and/or contributions are more than welcome. Alex
There is a new interview with Scott Meyers available on his site. Scott talks about language future, upcoming standard etc. I found it surprising that he does not care much about concepts. I am from the “excited” crowd.
It does not cease to amaze me how large corporate marketing machines sucesfully create false perceptions. I mean, everyone knows Java is the language skill de jour. At least Sun, IBM and Oracle would like you to believe so. Or, was it C#? No need to spell out who wants you to believe that ;-). […]
Jim Coplien is blogging on the next paradigm shift and first signs of recognition of his 8-year old book. Very interesting read.
… do, those who don’t – teach. Believe it or not Scott Meyers is a poster boy for the second half of the above statement. He is also the first person that made me think about it in a serious, positive and equal-to-the-first-half sense. Whether he knows how to do, I don’t know. But I […]
No, I will not write about virtual function call runtime overhead ;-). I want to comment on some blogs instead and point out that the virtue is not in extremes. Is functional programming back to mainstream? Writes Joel Spolsky about merits of functions: “programming languages with first-class functions let you find more opportunities for abstraction, […]
Thank God It’s Friday – a perfect time to relax and put out few thoughts about programming languages. Not surprisingly, I often come across as a language bigot, which I really am not. It’s not my fault that there’s so many lousy languages, and only one True One ;-). Just kidding – I actually wrote […]